Each time I was both entertained and moved.Ĭaterina Edwards, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, a Daughter in Search of the PastĬultural observer and literary editor Michelle Alfano’s A Lit Chick blog is sharp, funny and thoughtful her Bressani Award-winning novella, Made Up Of Arias, shows another side of this talented writer. I have read her novella Made Up of Arias three times. I can’t say enough about her prose it is sensuous and crystalline, intelligent and insightful. She has a mastery of metaphor, each one is effective. Her narratives are beguiling and true and populated by vivid, convincing characters. Nino Ricci, Governor General Award winning author of The Origin of Species and Lives of the SaintsĪs a writer, Michelle Alfano has it all. Alfano writes with the humour and compassion of someone who not only understands her characters, but forgives them. Michelle Alfano's Made Up of Arias beautifully evokes an immigrant childhood lived against the backdrop of opera, which stands in for all that her characters have lost or will never attain even while it speaks to the most common and everyday of their tragedies and joys.
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